Fireworks time....do you do anything to help your flock

[ChickenMammX4]

I'd be careful closing up the coop with blankets over openings during the summer or you may have roasted chicken in the morning!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Maybe taking them into a garage? Someplace more insulated from the noise.
Hopefully the neighbors will run out of fireworks soon.

I must say I have had a few oddly shaped eggs this week. My son is staying here to help with the dogs. He said there have been mortars going off before ten am.

 

[MidnightMaran]

We have a tractor style coop, they can go up there and to the roost, but it is their first week in the coop, and they only go up when it's dark, the fireworks are confusing them.

 

[MidnightMaran]

And I have family over that think the chickens are the coolest thing in the world. Taking them away from the place they watch the fireworks, I don't want to make them choose.

 

[MidnightMaran]

It's really cool over here right now. it's a one in a million chance it will catch fire.

 

[lazy gardener]

Fire works are no more problematic than a good thunderstorm IMO. But, then again, I live in a rural area.

 

[centrarchid]

I live in a rural area, possibly on same planet. By observing birds as I sit quietly in a lawn chair where one can see the birds as they sleep on the roost. Most during most of the night sleep with head tucked under wing. Thunderstorms when rain heavy can cause most roosting chickens to sleep with head exposed, presumably to prevent water from getting into feathers. When fire works are involved the chickens have head exposed, often eyes open, and they frequently flinch with aerial detonations of the fireworks. I have yet to determine if flinching is in response to the auditory or visual stimulus, in part because the fireworks when this observed were so complex and coming from multiple directions.

No one should like this post. It is base on observation and polluted by concept chickens are living, feeling animals.

 

[MidnightMaran]

only my buff orpingtons and silver laced wyandottes have ever slept with their head under their wing, and I think it's the noise. they always flinch at the firecrackers, but I had some silent ones that just emitted sparks, and they just watched them, not flinching at all.

 

[centrarchid]

only my buff orpingtons and silver laced wyandottes have ever slept with their head under their wing, and I think it's the noise. they always flinch at the firecrackers, but I had some silent ones that just emitted sparks, and they just watched them, not flinching at all.

I bet all sleep with head under wing under typical conditions. Mine do and they represent more than one breed.

 

[MidnightMaran]

They might. I haven't seen the other ones sleep since their second week in the coop, when the dog was there and they were terrified because they had never seen her.